page_title: Court, Switzerland
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Court, Switzerland / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: La patinoire de Court avec du public en train de patiner et jouer du hockey le 5 février 2012
context_page_description: Court is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura.
context_section_description: Court has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,420.  As of 2010, 6.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2001-2011) the population has changed at a rate of -0.8%.  Migration accounted for -0.3%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.1%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (1,202 or 89.1%) as their first language, German is the second most common (89 or 6.6%) and Portuguese is the third (14 or 1.0%).  There are 13 people who speak Italian and 3 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 48.7% male and 51.3% female.  The population was made up of 643 Swiss men (46.2% of the population) and 36 (2.6%) non-Swiss men.  There were 667 Swiss women (47.9%) and 47 (3.4%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 630 or about 46.7% were born in Court and lived there in 2000.  There were 343 or 25.4% who were born in the same canton, while 190 or 14.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 144 or 10.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2011, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.9%.
  As of 2000, there were 527 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 656 married individuals, 112 widows or widowers and 54 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 170 households that consist of only one person and 46 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 541 apartments (87.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 35 apartments (5.6%) were seasonally occupied and 46 apartments (7.4%) were empty.  As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 1.4 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2012, was 6.42%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Playing ice hockey in Court in 2012
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